Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2021

As a regular mentor to new consultants, I regularly find myself addressing some challenges of consulting life by simply recommending gear acquisitions based upon my personal experience. For those who are about to matriculate into consulting or recently started, this can really help you start off well equipped. Wireless Mouse.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Voluntary turnover is the most crucial type for firms to focus on as it can be impacted by management decisions and organisational styles. We also looked at some of the reasons that motivate people to voluntarily leave an organisation. In my last blog post we looked at six reasons employee’s leave an organisation.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

Consulting is a career where you hit the ground running. Having a clear direction and strategy for your career early on can grant you amazing advantages, but so can keeping your options open and exploring the opportunities offered by consulting. The joys of consulting. Consulting offers many attractive benefits.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Read on to learn more.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

As the world rapidly changes, businesses and people must change. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture. Companies with a positive culture experience 8x more profitability than S&P 400 firms. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Meta are investing billions annually.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

With virtual internships emerging as the new normal for the foreseeable future, it may be best to examine how to successfully stay on top of your virtual internship and complete it as if you were doing it physically. To make the most out of your virtual internship, it matters what you put in.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Does Oliver Wyman really offer a “different kind of consulting”? Today, we are digging into a firm that prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. KEY STATS FOR OLIVER WYMAN.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The career plan is one you create at the beginning of your career when you have the least amount of information. 3) Fear of failure in the emergent career. IF you have spare time in your current job, there are numerous easy, practical ways to explore emergent career opportunities without having to quit your current job first.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Welcome back to our Firm Profile series. Today we’re going to be looking at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm with a great name and a confusing history. From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON . and overseas. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ORGANIZATION .

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Nash Consulting Where have we been and where are we going? Our expedition into the realm of healthy conflict started by establishing firm foundations in the theories of conflict styles (see Part 1 here). Part 3: The Behaviors of Healthy Conflict 1. Yet, let's shatter the notion that conflict is inherently detrimental.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

3 This volume of data is roughly equivalent to 200 trillion feature length HD movies, which it would take more than 50 billion years to watch. The holistic potential of big data analytics can also be used to tackle the triple aim of enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing healthcare costs.

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Asamby Consulting

JUNE 2, 2022

This includes its productivity, performance, customer service, and employee engagement levels. Performance appraisals were mainly used in his own consultancy firm. Zacharias, Asamby Consulting 2022). Chances are if someone is working for 3+ years, they’d had some sort of goal setting, and experienced said appraisals.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. However, the firm’s acquisition and re-independence in the last 20 years – plus its notoriously nasty work-life imbalance – make it a great but challenging place to work. firm surpasses $100M in revenue.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Welcome back to our Firm Profile series. Today we’re going to be looking at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm with a great name and a confusing history. From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. In the 1960s, the firm gave the NFL some organizational advice.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized. According to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), the number of people involved in B2B solution purchases has climbed from an average of 5.4 two years ago to 6.8

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2015

In the pursuit of growth, should a company enter a new market, develop a new product, launch a start-up, form a joint venture, or acquire a competitor? In a bid to cut costs, should a company reduce headcount, outsource production to a supplier, or utilize lower cost distribution channels? Surveying the Business Landscape.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 31, 2009

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. What Rights Dont Give: - The right to force other people to listen to you. - The right to force other people to hang out with you. -

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work By Carter McNamara on December 2, 2012. They were interested in pursuing OD consulting, whether it be internal or external. Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. We began measuring it and setting goals for reducing it.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2018

High growth, however, also creates additional pressures on the business and the people to consistently deliver at a high quality at high speed. You may be expanding into new markets, acquiring or merging with another business, developing new products or simply growing the work force to meet increasing demand. In what roles?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. Is it OK for a few firms to possess so much data and thereby wield so much power? Ordinarily the harm from monopolies are higher prices, less output, or reduced quality.

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Tsavo Neal

JUNE 5, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. Friday Fusion is a collection of said writing from Quora, LinkedIn, and email conversations with consultants. What’s your favorite copywriting formula? It gives your writing a readability grade.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The US post office was contemplating stopping Saturday delivery to reduce costs. If you live in the Bay Area, you might be relaxing at home in your pajamas ordering all sorts of goodies and waiting until Google drops it off within the same day. Instead, the post office has gone the other way, at least for packages. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. The really important question is whether Spain will grow enough to create a lot of jobs to reduce the unacceptably high unemployment and increasing family income". IMF Proposes Spain Reduce Wages by 10% in Two Years. Home Builders. Recommended Books.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. Wednesday, August 07, 2013 3:40 AM. Jekyll Island Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island. Home Builders. Recommended Books. Tomorrow's Gold. Case Against The Fed. The Dollar Meltdown. The Dollar Crisis. What Has Government Done to Our Money? Urban Digs.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We got under the skin of each organization, to understand how they live and breathe, by interviewing people who work (or worked) with them, observing them in action and reading everything about them. And what can business learn from them? Then, we spent five years trying to understand what they do, and how they do it.

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MishTalk

JULY 5, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. Last month there was no jump in part-time employment which had me wondering if the the bulk of the Obamacare effect (employers reducing hours from 32 to 25 and hiring hundreds of thousands of new employees to make up the hours) had mostly played out.

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MishTalk

JULY 31, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. There is a safe harbor for people who lose their primary residence to foreclosure, but it would not apply to these Richmond residents, since they would keep their house with magically reduced debt. Home Builders. Recommended Books. Tomorrow's Gold.

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MishTalk

JULY 27, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. The lack of new hiring over the past several years given a recovering economy seems to have disproportionately reduced younger Americans ability to obtain full-time jobs. Jekyll Island Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island. Home Builders. Recommended Books.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

The key point to understand about a case interview and the case interview process is that it is designed to simulate life on the job as a management consultant. As you get different tests results back, how would you interpret them to determine whether your initial thoughts and impressions were correct? Who Uses Case Interviews and Why?

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. Jekyll Island Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island. Home Builders. Recommended Books. Tomorrow's Gold. Case Against The Fed. The Dollar Meltdown. The Dollar Crisis. What Has Government Done to Our Money? Economics In One Lesson.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Banking 70

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What are the Top Consulting Firms? While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the present-day dynamic business environment, you should stay on top of all recent trends and be ready to implement innovations in your work. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Your only man for home workers! The industrial relations consultant Dr. Liam Doherty (he’s great fun) argues that the only reason for going on radio is to keep someone else off air. Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

As firms have moved toward hiring more non-MBA types -- JD's, PhDs, MD's, my sense is they have gravitated away from using this kind of case because it requires too much pre-existing knowledge rather than more general problem solving skills. This is the key concept that is not always obvious to people unfamiliar with micro economics.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Economics For Real People. If we were expecting the June 20 liquidity crunch to slow growth in Wealth Management Products (WMP), we may be disappointed. Jekyll Island Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island. Home Builders. Recommended Books. Tomorrow's Gold. Case Against The Fed.

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Real Estate Financial Analysis Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2018

In our consulting work, we often encounter managers who struggle to convert AI experiments into strategic programs which can then be implemented. How can he create cross-functional teams where data experts work with product teams? While the enthusiasm is undeniable, the reality is that AI remains an early-stage technology application.

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